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Introduction (Songs of Innocence)

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Introduction is a poem from William Blake's 1789 collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

Poem[edit]

Introduction

Piping down the valleys wild

Piping songs of pleasant glee,

On a cloud I saw a child,

And he laughing said to me:

"Pipe a song about a Lamb!"

So I piped with merry cheer.

"Piper. pipe that song again."

So I piped: he wept to hear.

"Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe:

Sing thy songs of happy cheer."

So I sang the same again.

While he wept with joy to hear.

"Piper, sit thee down and write

In a book that all may read."

So he vanished from my sight

And I plucked a hollow reed.

And I made a rural pen.

And I stained the water clear,

And I wrote my happy songs

Every child may joy to hear.

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